Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
>> Has anyone here actually designed and had fabricated, a part which was
>> then used in a device (more than a curiosity)
>> I'm taking an analog VLSI class and we're going to have some 
>> parts made
>> by MOSIS, and I'm a bit fascinated by it.
>>     
>
> Not 'me' = myself, but I worked for a project that had an ATM cell
> switch done as ASIC. But I was not directly involved. What I recall was
> the big bucks involved in getting first silicon, and the frustration of
> having to work with the unavoidable bugs.
>
> Wouter van Ooijen
>
>   
I suppose that, with the incarnation of high speed high density FPGAs
and super high-speed MCUs, there wouldn't be the same need to fabricate
your own parts. It looks like a lot of fun though.
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Martin K
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